Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Sports

• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Difficulty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Harvard University Press

• No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

• Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Sports, Way

• Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Time, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.57, Penguin

• Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Song, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.77, 谷月社

• A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Friendship, Sports

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

• Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Sweet, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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